noun
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Also called: coopery. the craft, place of work, or products of a cooper
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the labour fee charged by a cooper
Etymology
Origin of cooperage
Example Sentences
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The company closed the cooperage in Louisville that made barrels to store its spirits, with an aim of getting more than $30 million in proceeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
This means his pickle company is also part cooperage.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
The silo was about eight feet across and thirty feet high, with boards of unvarnished yellow pine as tightly fitted as cooperage.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Small tour groups will be taken round six "pillars" of whisky-making, including cask cooperage and maturation.
From BBC ● May 21, 2018
Eliza lived with Joseph’s family in a small apartment above the cooperage.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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